How To Install dislocker on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dislocker on CentOS 8.
What is dislocker
Dislocker has been designed to read BitLocker encrypted partitions (“drives”) under a Linux system. The driver has the capability to read/write partitions encrypted using Microsoft Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 (AES-CBC, AES-XTS, 128 or 256 bits, with or without the Elephant diffuser, encrypted partitions); BitLocker-To-Go encrypted partitions (USB/FAT32 partitions). The file name where the BitLocker encrypted partition will be decrypted needs to be given. This may take a long time, depending on the size of the encrypted partition. But afterward, once the partition is decrypted, the access to the NTFS partition will be faster than with FUSE. Another thing to think about is the size of the disk (same size as the volume that is tried to be decrypted). Nevertheless, once the partition is decrypted, the file can be mounted as any NTFS partition and won’t have any link to the original BitLocker partition.
We can use yum or dnf to install dislocker on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dislocker.
Install dislocker on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install dislocker using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dislocker
Install dislocker on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install dislocker using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dislocker
How To Uninstall dislocker on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the dislocker package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dislocker
dislocker Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/dislocker-bek
/usr/bin/dislocker-file
/usr/bin/dislocker-find
/usr/bin/dislocker-metadata
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c/a4ef9ad572e6d127765dda0ff48bb5df99f055
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1/9768bf4be45fbd040ab962f7293b846db1c14a
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5/1e829abce03d1174bdc3aa1e89c721efbc9abf
/usr/share/man/man1/dislocker-file.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dislocker-find.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dislocker on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
